COVID-19
A Reimbursement Dream Realized
With New Law, 33 Years of Advocacy Finally Pays OffThe passage of the Mental Health Access Improvement Act—the product of more than three decades of advocacy—is a historic moment that removes a significant... Read more
Is There Meaning in Loss? (Part 2)
Four More Therapists Weigh InOur last Clinician’s Quandary on helping clients—and ourselves—navigate grief work received an overwhelming number of responses. So many, in fact, that... Read more
Covid Comes to Therapy
Navigating Collective TraumaFor a few years now, I’ve worked with groups around the world to address collective trauma. Our focus is usually on something that had happened elsewhere and... Read more
Should Therapists Go Back to an Office?
Deepening Our Work “Off Stage”Seeing clients through the COVID-19 crisis has shown us not only that psychotherapy can be effective outside the traditional frame—complete with an office... Read more
Love After Lockdown
What Follows Togetherness OverloadFor some couples, staying home together during COVID improved their sex lives. But many have reported the opposite experience. Now that re-entry is here, what... Read more
When you do the work that we do, it’s important to find ways to take care of yourself. You can’t always carve out lots of time to devote to self-care, but... Read more
Sex Post-Covid
Healing the RiftsLockdown provoked a wide range of emotions among partnered people, including an increase in anxiety, fear, loneliness, boredom and frustration. It’s been... Read more
The Year of Canceled Plans
Coping with Loss as DisappointmentAs all of us in the United States move into the coming months, a full year into COVID life, our personal losses will come into focus. If we don’t process... Read more
Families Under Pressure
Helping Relieve Today’s Parents & KidsThe pandemic has created an emotional petri dish for kids and parents who are stuck in place, terribly stressed, and feeling alone. How are families supposed... Read more
A Turning Point for Caregivers
Discussing the Hidden Impacts of the PandemicOur current caregiving crisis is a societal failure, not the result of one family’s shortcomings. Read more